Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-07-20

1hs Dredging Machine ~ Work to Make .
Chsnnel- A Boat siDks After StrikiDg =
Rock- Omcers Chosen BY the Fantasies.

IhO Dredging Machine ~ Work to Make 4
Channsl- Boat siDks After strikiDg =
RocE- -Omcers Chosen BY the Fantasies.
COLUMBIA, July 2O-The hot dry weather
BY which We have been assailed for some
time hss affected the river to such an extent
that the water has fallen between two and
three feet during the past two or three weeks
That portion Of the river, on this side, DO.
tween the lock and the bridge is not nsvigsbIe
to canal boats drawing i've feet OF water
These boats can no longer ply between Co
lumbis and Wrightsville, and the dredg.
Ing machine with q large corps OF work
men ID employed in making . channel
on this side. Yesterday canal boat No.
233, commanded by Captain Beigh,
went safely over the first part of the journey
bstwesn Columbia and Wrightsville, but
while approaching the Wrightsvills side the
boat struck forcibly against rock and sunk.
The boat, up this morning, had not been
raised.
Fsntasticsis Organize.
Tho success attained by the Fsntasticals,
an organization which added greatly to the
attractions In the parade on the Fourth Of
July, has induced q number OF gentlemen to
form similar body aud make ii permanent
institution. For this purpose . meeting was
held and the following officers elected ::
President, w. +. Mauiick first vice presi
dent, J. II. Ostertsg second vice president,
Frank Musser; treasurer, Edward Bitner
secretary, +. g. Payne assistant, Howard
Rhodes costumer, Harry Lichty execu.
tive committee will be composed of +. W.
Heckle, Townsend Stone and +. G. Johns
The organization has at this time l6 msmbers
and applications for admittsnce are still pour.
ing In.
Caught BY the Police.
Ofioer Wittick received word that boy In
the employ OF Mr.. Sultzbsch, OF Marietta, had
run away. The officer succeeded in arrest,
ing the boy, whom he restored to his home.
VIM. Tytus was srrsigned before Squire
6olly charged by his wife with assault and
battery. Tytus would have been sentenced
% jail for nOn-psyment Of costs but for the
intercsssion Of his wife, who relented and
paid tho requisite sum.
Too Large Picuics.
The Presbyterian, Trinity Reformed and
- PAul's II. E. Sunday schools, who hold a
union picnic ct Penryn park to-day took be.
twoea three and four hundred persons
Twelve carloads Of people went TO the pic
~ hsld st Mount Gretns to-day by the
nuothsshood OF Railroad Cond uctors.
Young Folks literary society Of the Firs,
Evangslieai Lutheran church, will picnic q,
NsOall's Ferry on August Ath.
Gen. Wslah Post No lis. q. A. r., will
hold their annual picnic. st PsnSyn park on
August 20th.
The St Johns Lutheran Sunday school
picnic at PeuTyn park On August 10Th.
vlsat0ss ~ Tewa.
Mn Wsimer u Waiting her father, Mr.
John Bennett
AsssrA WIN. @. Brown and w. n. Msuat
a Philadslphia, are guests OF Mr. r. r. w.
9hearf.
Mi1 Alice Adams, OF Harrisburg, 10 visit.
lng friends In Columbia.
M. Joseph Fsndrich b home, ct present,
With biz fstheE, Mr. John Fsndrich.
hass Of Veterans Campfire.
Gen. Welsh Camp No 6s, Sons Of Vet
lrans, will hold campfire tomorrow night
. ne armory. A pleasant time II antici.
paeed, - Waiting camps from Lancaster and
Fcsk viii b here together with the Ladies'
NJ socisty Of the Sons Of vsssranA Lancas.
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